People in the UK are so bad on this. I was ruthlessly mocked when I first moved here and what's "hilarious" is that I was a native speaker, just not "native enough" for the fuckwads.
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Replying to @o_guest @Haggazussa
One of the most hurtful things they said to me was "we aren't racist towards you because you have a British passport". They thought it was a hilarious joke.
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Replying to @o_guest
Yea I have pretty good pronounciation, but certain words I was used to pronouncing differently and they mocked that and kept bringing it up when I went to school in England, was really great being a 16 year old girl constantly afraid I was going to pronounce something wrong
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Replying to @Haggazussa @o_guest
And the casual racism was so common... like people would ask me if I was polish under their breath to figure out if I’m a bad immigrant.
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Replying to @Haggazussa
We have the same experiences. I was told quite a few times to "fuck off back to Poland".
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Replying to @o_guest
One time an old woman at the bus stop just started talking to me how horrible all the immigrants were and I just stood there, no idea what I was supposed to do. It was a pretty illuminating experience tbh.
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Replying to @Haggazussa @o_guest
A few years back, a UKIP canvasser approached me and went off on an anti-immigrant rant. At some point I interrupted him to point out that I'm American. "Oh, we don't mean you." There're many things I love about the UK, but the xenophobia & racism fill me with so much rage.
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Replying to @sheardcat @Haggazussa
The sad thing is that the UK is probably one of the least racist countries. Back home in Cyprus the kids at school used to beat up any Muslims (like 2 in the whole school) every day without any repercussions because essentially the teachers agreed.
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Replying to @o_guest @Haggazussa
That's absolutely horrifying, though sadly not surprising, and as someone raised somewhere that gleefully voted for Donald Trump, I can hardly be the first to condemn.
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I'd really like to live in a society, though, that challenges all forms of racism, xenophobia, sexism, etc, even if it's already doing a comparatively good job. One can be simultaneously grateful for what one has and still work to make things better.
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Of course. But I get very excluded and upset when people talk about their home country as a solution for xenophobia in the UK. I have no "home" to return to.
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Replying to @o_guest @Haggazussa
I'm sorry that people are so awful. :-(
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